Re: Roman Syllabary

At 3:01 pm -0400 18/5/01, John Cowan wrote:
>Raymond Brown wrote:
>
>> Has anyone come across anybody actually using Babm?  It's been around since
>> 1962.  There is AFAIK no Babm home-page on the net, which suggests that it
>> has gone the way of the hundreds of other conIALs published over the past
>> three centuries or so.
>
>
>I suppose you know about
>
>http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/9801/lenguas/babm.html .
I didn't.  I must confess it's been somewhile since I searched.

But, having looked, it's still does not give any evidence that anyone
actually _uses_ Babm.  It's seems just exceprts from Fushiki Okamoto's
publication of 1962.

It was, however, a surprise to see it on a site dealing with constructed
auxlangs.  It shows a greater awareness of the diversity of auxlang
solutions that those sites that confine themselves merely to "Euroclones".

What I was thinking of by a Babm home-page was one maintained by some
person or group that is actively using & promoting Babm.  AFAIK there isn't
such a web-site.

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At 2:43 pm -0400 18/5/01, Oskar Gudlaugsson wrote:
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>
>I'm interested, actually, to know other details of Babm. Surely it was more
>than a phonology; what kind of language was it, in other aspects?
>
a_priori - a bit in the same style as the 'philosophic' auxlangs of the
17th century.

If you haven't already done so - and I suspect you have - take a look at
the URL John gives above.

Ray.



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